[Abstract Only] Study: Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality Increased Among Former Professional Soccer Players

Neurodegenerative Disease Mortality among Former Professional Soccer Players – New England Journal of Medicine (link to abstract – $ for full-text)

Commentaries: Dementia in football: Ex-players three and a half times more likely to die of condition – BBC (free) AND Study shows more thinking problems in former pro soccer players – Reuters (free)

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Just published: In a study in which death certificates were used to compare the causes of death among 7676 former Scottish #soccer players and 23,028 matched controls, mortality from neurodegenerative disease was higher among former players. https://t.co/MFEQPGGFRP

— NEJM (@NEJM) October 21, 2019